Colin,
Bringing this back to Northumbrian pipes (hopefully)
Is the skill of improvisation, the same as interpretation?
The first, I would suggest is based on a spontaneous approach during
one performance.
Interpretation, or the internalisation that Anthony was alluding to,
is a personalisation built on repeated considerations of how we play
a tune.
It has more subtle and fixed outcomes.
Steve
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